LUNESTA Reviews (ESZOPICLONE)Average Rating: 2.7 (851 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LUNESTA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LUNESTA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | chronic insomnia | feeling drugged the next day and lack of mental alertness. | this drug induces intermittent sleep but a non restorative sleep. The next day I feel completely drugged and lack mental clarity. I usually feel exhausted after a "Lunesta" night. I'd rather have an insomnia hangover than a Lunesta hangover. Planning to discontinue using this product. | M | 45 | 4 weeks | 9/5/2006 | 4 | Insomnia | Bad taste, don't drink the water! Although I sleep at night, I am just as tired, if not more, during the day, like I never slept at all. I have terrible indigestion and diarrhea. I am bloated and retaing fluid. Im depressed and irratable. I do not remember anything that happenned 30 minutes before I fall asleep, and I have very bizzare dreams. | I started taking Lunest because I had a lot of difficulty falling asleep. I would awaken several timed during the night. I would wake up much earlier than necessary and be unable to fall back to sleep. I still take lunesta because I hate lying in bed awake, hour after hour. Sleep is a wonderful escape from life. | F | 53 | 2 months | 8/31/2006 | 4 | insomnia | Metal taste! Mine lasts from ingestion to several hours after I wake up. My breakfast tastse like crap, but after taking 400mg I can finally sleep. | Maybe we should investigate what the metal taste is. Will it harm us? Cause permanent damage or poor tatste isues? | M | 28 | 30 days | 8/24/2006 | 5 | insomnia | I don't take it. I am considering switching to it, but am concerned about the metallic taste side effect. I have taken Ambien (stopped working) and am now taking Sonata (sometimes works, sometimes doesn't). | Lunesta (eszopiclone) most certainly IS a new drug and has NOT been marketed under other names for years despite what the 19-year-old male who posted "not a new drug, don't believe it, it's been under different aliases for years" says. BEFORE it received FDA approval, Lunesta was being called "Estorra". However, the name was changed before the drug ever hit the market because the FDA said it was too similar to the name of another drug. Lunesta has never been sold under any name but Lunesta. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/business/16sleep.html?ex=1156219200&en=f349b5ee09831d69&ei=5070 | F | 38 | 0 days | 8/20/2006 | 4 | To fall asleep.... | It took me a little longer to be clear headed in the morning, other than that, I experience no side effects. | I ALMOST didn't take Lunesta, because of all the comments regarding the awful taste. My curiosity got the best of me- how awful could it be???? It tastes like nothing. Nada. No taste whatsoever. Is Ambien running this site? | F | 36 | 2 days | 8/19/2006 | 1 | Insomnia | Unbearable metallic taste in my mouth. I kept asking my husband to taste my water because it tasted so bitter, like a chemical, like poison! It did not work for me at all and this is my first experience taking a medication for insomnia. I felt no effects from it whatsoever except the taste in my mouth. Other than that I didn't even know I took it. | At $5 per pill it is a waste of money for me. | F | 40 | 2 days | 8/19/2006 | 2 | insomnia | memory loss. | complete black out of memory after taking lunesta. Dont remember conversations, turning off lights, nothing. Memory gone. Next day all is normal. 3mg dose. Have a call in for the doc....would like to try something else....amnesia is scary. Ambien makes me itch so that is out....big decision here is can i live with the amnesia to catch 6 hours of sleep if the doc doesnt have anything else? | F | 49 | 30 days | 8/18/2006 | 3 | insomnia | Leg swelling, fluid retnetion, confusion and forgetfullness, tinitus, chest pain and depression | This drug is the end of the road for me. Can't seem to take other sleep meds. Honestly, I can't take this drug either. Been on it for a couple of months with the instructions to use it "when need it". I tried Ambien but it kicked off migraines and caused chest pain. I am really tired and the chest pain is bothering me. It goes away when I stop. I feel lethargic for a good portion of the day even after getting the requisite 8 hrs of sleep. I know I dream because I wake up remembering for a moment and then it's gone. On the off nights when I don't take it I have nightmares. Also my legs swell terribly now, | F | 69 | | 8/16/2006 | 5 | insommia / early waking | None | Solid 7 hours sleep all the time | M | 64 | 6 months | 8/15/2006 | 5 | Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome | Mild metal taste, but I don't notice it much anymore. During the first few months, I had amnesia during the 30-90 minute period after taking it and before falling asleep, but that stopped happening over time. I always get a serious case of the munchies about 30 minutes after taking it. I was surprised no one else reported that effect. No problematic side effects after 1 year. | It has dramatically improved my daily life and ability to function. My condition is that I can sleep 8 hours just fine, but on a time zone somewhere in the Western Pacific (usually 4am to Noon local time, which my bosses never liked). I take 3 mg. and it works well about 95% of the time. I take it at 10:30pm, get sleepy by Midnight, fall asleep within 2 minutes of hitting the pillow and wake up at 8:00am. There is usually a 15-30 minute foggy period after waking before I can get out of bed -- I've learned to just lay there and let the drug cook off. I feel fully alert for the whole day after that. About once a month (3% of the time), I get a dud that has no effect, and about as frequently I get one that knocks me out almost immediately -- may be related to food or caffeine or something else. I stop taking it periodically just to make sure I can. Withdrawal is not severe, but I revert back to my old sleep schedule. | M | 39 | 1 years | 8/14/2006 | 4 | Insomnia | Nausea and ringing in the ears. | (((((( ringing in the ears)))))))))) I don't know if it's do to lunesta. I have been on it for 12days and the last 5 days have been pure hell for me. I have ringing in the ears and can't imagine what it's from. When I read the responses I came accross a 42 yr lady that has the same as I do. Anyone else experiencing this. I also have Nausea. I also lost 4 pounds over the last 3 weeks without dieting. I have read everything about Lunesta and they do not mention ringing in the ears. As of tonight I will not be taking Lunesta and probably won't sleep a wink. But hopefully this will be the end of my ringing ears. I pray!!!!! Anyone ???? | F | 50 | 12 days | 8/12/2006 | 3 | insomnia | Metallic taste in mouth which dissipates by mid morning. Most of the time I sleep well with it. Lately I have experienced depression, anxiety, irritability. | I have to maintain a positive, healthy emotional foundation and I'm afraid that Lunesta is not going to do it for me. | F | 46 | 55 days | 8/11/2006 | 4 | Insomnia | I have experienced intense dreams on this that I do not experience when I take ambien. | Overall, I like it better than ambien because it doesn't drug you up like ambien does. You don't experience the anterograde amnesia that ambien is notorious for. | M | 5 days | 8/3/2006 | 3 | Insomnia | Bad taste, anxiety, daytime sleepness. | I took it for occational insomnia and began to have extreme anxiety. Thought it was just me. I began taking Zoloft and got hooked on Lunesta to avoid waking up with anxiety. I thought I was going crazy. I began to suspect Lunesta and have been off it for a month. No more extreme anxiety and no more Zoloft. I threw out my Lunesta. | F | 47 | 1 years | 7/24/2006 | 4 | Insomnia | Headache, but other than that, none,. | I will say that sometimes this medicine does not work at all. I will take a 3 mg pill and wait for the sleepiness to hit so I can go to bed and a half hour later nothing. I am wondering if it is cool to take a second dose. Maybe it will help. | F | 44 | 66 days | 7/20/2006 | 4 | Insomnia | None from April 2005 until June 2006, then headaches | I have been on sleep meds for about 10 years. One med to GET me to sleep (10 mg Ambien or Lunesta) and another to KEEP me asleep (Ativan, Oxazapam, or 3 AM Ambien fragments) for 8 or so hours. I started Lunesta when it first came on the market as an alternative to Ambien. Ambien did well for several years prior until I developed an intense 'leftover' feeling that I could not overcome no matter how low the dosage. Lunesta seemed to work at the 4 or 5 mg level at first with few side effects. Due to insurance restrictions, I had to cut down to 3 mg Lunesta plus take 5 mg Ambien. Although not perfect sleep, I managed to subsist until June 06 when I began to experience headaches in increasing frequency. I cut down the Lunesta to 1.5 mg (pill-splitting) to reduce the intensity of the headaches. The lower dose was not as effective in getting me to sleep and I did not sleep as long (3 hours usually). Headaches persisted until I just stopped the Lunesta two nights ago. I am still taking | M | 52 | 14 months | 7/20/2006 | 1 | insomnia | horrible metallic taste (no one told me, though as this board indicates, it's rampant), EXTREME anxiety, nervousness and "jitteriness" the next day (today 7/20/06), probably made worse by the one cup of coffee I had this morning. | After taking it I felt calm but I still didn't sleep for 2 hours. Felt exhausted this morning after 7 hours sleep. I'm sure I speak for many others: worse than useless. | M | 28 | 1 days | 7/20/2006 | 3 | lunesta | Increased symptoms of Myasthenia Gravis (neuro-muscular disease)..Severe stomach complaints. I am now on Several meds for GERD. New disease on the list for me for me.. I am bloated, depressed, weak. I feel very agitated. Oh ya the taste... I thought i was having olfactory hallucinations...but c/be the Lunesta.. I think my depresssion had been worse. I keep wondering about the meaning of it too much.. | I used the Lunesta to wean off of Dalmane and other Benzo's i was on for 12 years. It helped. I take the Lunesta to sleep through chronic pain and insomnia and panic. I do have all of the strange symptoms that people list here like: leg cramps, morning sickness, bloating (I am small so i look pregnant)..dry mouth, dry other areas(is it only me??).., GERD, ringing in ears (I've been looking for a family of loud crickets in my apartment) can't find them. They moved in with the big Luna Moth.. I have mystery head aches and terrible leg pains. I tried to stop taking the stupid pill tonight and i freaked out big time and took it. I tried to use 600 mg. Valerian and 2 Benadryl-- but here i am, with all of that and I gave into the Lunesta. It feels like i need to be in rehab to get off this stuff. I am off the Benzo's..but this is a problem too..Wanna STOP.. to see if other problems go away.. but then i won't sleet at all and get Manic :) | F | 39 | 9 days | 7/19/2006 | 5 | insommia | Putride taste that went away after a few doses. Nothing else negitive. Except, of couse the price! | I thank God for Lunesta. I can finally sleep peacefully and feel normal in the morning. I had tried ambian at a low dose. It didn't help much and a higher dose gave me a terrible migrain the next day. Not a fan of Ambian at all. | F | 41 | 6 months | 7/18/2006 | 3 | Insomnia | Lousy taste in my mouth | This stuff works decently for sleep. Knocks me out. Gives me a little high at first. But the awful mouth taste truly overrides any positive effect, especially compared to Ambien. | M | 21 | 6 months | 7/15/2006 |